Tony & Emmy Award winner Billy Porter will add yet another title to his ever-growing litany of achievements: New Years Eve host. Porter will join Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2020 as co-host opposite Ryan Seacrest and Lucy Hale.
“2020 has been a trying year for the world and I’m thrilled to have Billy and Lucy join me in ushering in a new year with fresh beginnings,” said Seacrest in a statement, according to The Associated Press. “We look forward to making sure it’s a night for everyone to remember.”
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Porter, Hale & Seacrest will host the show from New York City’s Times Square. The broadcast will be closed to the public this year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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Last year, Porter joined the broadcast from New Orleans where he offered a few quips and performed a handful of songs. We can only hope for even more this year, with Porter showing off his ample vocal gifts, not to mention his fashion sense.
Billy Porter stars on the FX series Pose. Season 3 of the show will be broadcast in 2021.
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Josh447
Nice line up. I adore Billy and Seacrest is always a charming closet case. Looking forward to getting to know Lucy, she’s cute.
Roy Ajax
Billy Porter is undoing decades of progess gay men have made. When did being normal become bad?
Josh447
How do you figah?
Roy Ajax
A bit of an over exaggeration but more and more the gay men are being represented by very effeminiate men. We were trying to get away from those sterotypes and there are gay business men, lawyers, regular guys but that’s now looked down upon. This is now what gay kids are seeing as somethign to strive toward.
WashDrySpin
“We were trying to get away from those sterotypes and there are gay business men, lawyers, regular guys but that’s now looked down upon. ”
Who is this “we”…is there some secret group that you are a part of
You have much internalized homophobia and toxic masculinity
Roy Ajax
Washdryspin
No internalized homophobia. Happily partnered for almost twenty years. Very open with everyone. Toxic masculinity? No such thing. That’s a term made up by people who majored in social studies.
trsxyz
Billy Porter (and Johnny Weir…) are not how I want to be defined. But there is enough diversity in our current representation among “out” public figures, that I’ll just say “vive la différence” and leave it at that.
Kangol2
You come off as effemophobic and locked into a narrow idea of masculinity and how gay men should present themselves in the world. Rather than reinforcing anti-effeminate attitudes, why not push for everyone to be treated equally, however they express themselves in terms of their gender? You do realize that innumerable brave, effeminate gay men have fought tooth and nail for you to be able to be a gay person however you see fit, don’t you?
Also, blaming any gay person for the anti-gay and homophobic attitudes of non-LGBTQ people is both anti-gay and homophobic, whether you’re gay yourself, in a longterm relationship with another person of the same sex, or believe you do not hold toxic, narrow masculinist attitudes. Would you want to be blamed for anti-White attitudes? Or anti-male attitudes? Of course not.
Cam
The right wing troll account ALWAYS attacks any LGBTQ person who is out. The right wing trolls argument is that anybody who is open is harming us. In reality, the more people who are out the better and your trolling is old and tired.
MikeM
And Grammy winner. He is an “O” short of an EGOT.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
The producers who insisted this event go on minus the crowd made the right choice. An insignificant event requires a host of the same caliber. What has he ever done that didn’t require him to be a silly ass (but well paid) loud mouth borderline high off of something appearing queen? The same goes for a few more “ground breakers”. Does anyone else remember Caitlyn Jenner and her importance both then and now? Porter will take an already somber mood and………….hey, you know what, enough said.
Cam
And the OTHER account that always attacks LGBTQ people who don’t follow some 1950s version of masculinity is here to attack Porter.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Cam, thank you so much for coming to work today. After you ring up that next customer please go over and help tend to the sausages, eggs and hash browns and then wipe off the tables. Then take your break and go back and check Queerty. I’m not going to have you do the floors and bathroom today.
Cam
@Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Well well well, the right wing troll account that was stealing other people’s screenames now just exposed itself. Sweetie, Sister Bertha and I sometimes disagree, but you gave up the game when you went with one of your typical obsessive rants on me. You really really really really are terrible at this.
It’s also interesting how snobby Republicans are against people who work, your post was somehow mocking servers and restaurant workers, thank you also for showing how much Republicans actually hate their base.
Now back to Billy Porter. Good for him!
judysdad
Barf. Definitely not my kind of gay man. And I agree: Why is it these poor excuses for men have now become the go-to figures when it comes to gay representation? Embarrassing.
Cam
So what is it that makes him a “Poor excuse for a man”?
Is it being openly gay? Black? Something else? Feel free to elaborate.
Vince
Ha. I guess Carson Kressley was busy. They just wanted the silliest queen for the ratings.
Probably asked him to wear another flamboyant outfit that’s sure to draw people’s attention.
sacha99
They didnt ask you did they lol? Idiot
Kangol2
Good for Billy Porter. He has loads of talent, is lots of fun on camera, and will keep the proceedings lively. It’ll be 1,000 times more interesting than the Andy Cohen-Anderson Cooper snooze-fest, who, lest we forget, are two rich, White openly gay men who have hosted a New Year’s event and who are on TV nearly every day, so how’s that for “gay representation”? I mean, come on!
b2rocketfan
There are a lot of hate filled assholes on here. I’m happy that we live in a time when Billy Porter can be himself and be celebrated. He doesn’t have to be a “manly” man. He can just be himself. If people don’t like it, don’t watch. Why is that so hard to get?
sacha99
Im preety sure for these racists it’s his ethnicity that’s the problem.
Liquid Silver
Meh. I’m pretty neutral on Porter and the whole thing, personally, but I’m also the sort who turns on the TV at 11:57, we watch the ball drop, turn it off at 12:02 as the phones start to ring, and talk to friends. Or at least that’s the plan this year.
But we won’t be watching Billy, I never cared much either way for him, the attitude, or the…I guess you call those outfits? Whatever. Just meh.
Cam
Porter has been out since the beginning of his career and it hurt him then, I’m so glad he is seeing success and getting paid now. Just like other actors who have been out from the start like Wilson Cruz, Anthony Rapp, Lea Delaria, Sarah Ramierez, Lena Waithe, etc. I’m glad they’re getting their due now.
TedV
In the late 90’s Billy Porter and I were regulars at the same theater district bar in NYC. He was always out, proud and unapologetic, and I’m glad he hasn’t changed. We used to celebrate that our community was a rainbow where everyone was accepted as is. Now we have heteronormative monitors calling out anyone who doesn’t fit the traditional masculine mold. Lighten up, guys, if it’s not your cup of tea, that’s fine – you do you, and let everyone else do the same. That’s what it’s all about, and that’s what we all fought for.
sacha99
Im sure it’s his ethnicity that is pissing them off. Carson can do no wrong
Kangol2
Sacha, it’s more than his race, it’s that Billy Porter is flamboyant and challenges gender norms. The same people probably also hate Jonathan Van Ness too. And don’t be so sure they wouldn’t freak out against Carson Cressley either.
Kanaka4127
Yay. You rock Billy. Now get Kathy Griffin on that dias!
Ronbo
THAT team would get me to turn on the TV!
Anderson and Cohen together just creeped me out. How do two men not have one backbone?